Speculation will begin soon on what positions in the Cuomo Administration two soon to be former NNY lawmakers will get.
Obvious chatter is already out there about Senator Darrel Aubertine as Agriculture Secretary. It is a tradition to take care of electeds who performed well for the party but took it on the chin in an election. Mr. Aubertine would seem a good fit for the job.
The other mystery appointment would be Assemblywoman Diedre Scozzafava, who had backed Mr. Cuomo and other Democrats in a clear break with the GOP of which she is registered.
Ms. Scozzafava is clearly owed consideration for her withdrawal from the 2009 Congressional race which allowed Bill Owens to win. She endorsed Mr. Owens again this year.
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We dont need commissioners and secretaries. This is the waste in government we need to cut.
Ahh, another whacky teabagger heard from. Just keep the medicare commissioner or else you won't get your free scooter.
Is there any openings in the bankruptcy courts? With Dede's experience bankrupting her own company she should be an asset.
Was Hacketts and Seaway Valley unionized when it was in Watertown? I mean...I'm sure it was because she is in favor of card check and her husband is a union man...so it would only be right...but just thought I would ask.
Maybe Aubertine could be put in charge of counting the local prison population and reporting it back to downstate so they can count our inmates as living downstate.
I think wind lease ethics will work against Aubertine on that one. Cuomo wants to start clean. I don't think he would put his top cop in the position of investigating his "new Ag chief's home town". Especially when the fix was put in at Darrel's suggestion.
Jeff some times I wonder if you think these things out.
At least Forsythe and Doheny wont be involved in it... I am sooooooooooooo delighted.. Now we will get to work in NNY getting Ogdensburg a new look... LOok for the mayor to be replaced at the next election Hopefully the others the deadbeats like Vaugh and Powers can be replaced and some fresh faces put on the council.. The democrats still control the County legislature and hopefully dont get into in fighting like the last one The proffessors are gone.. They were the most negative force on the board and needed to go.. I hope that unlike Forsythe and Lightfoot some of the new board can cross party lines on occassions for the better of the taxpayers and certainly their employees.. No matter how you feel services must be trimmed and people must be laid off.. Not this thirty day crap but eliminated.. All non mandated positions should be reviewed extensively and all mandated postions reviewed for alternate ways to perform them.. Seriously not this crap where we take the dept heads word for things.
Want tocreate a job... Slc needs a new Republican leader. Nancy Martin has done a horrible job in creating canidates.. Go back to the days of Janet Kelly... Nancy acts like Chuck Kelly has been her advisor...
Hey 1:29 you hit the nail on the head, Good thing our local job creating forces weren"t involved (or were they)? in the Hackett's saga. But wait isn't there another job creating try with her brother and Beer?
I look at it this way. Cuomo's first steps in fixing Albany can't and shouldn't be recycled Pols like Darrel and Dede getting key appointments. I find it hard to believe they are the best qualified in NYS. If they do get appointed, it will let us all know that nothing is gonna change.
Big wrong assumption for some here...Cuomo has no more intention of fixing Albany than Obama had of making a bipartisan health care bill.
Cuomo is cut from the same material as Spitzer. He will reward the people he feels deserve it and he will punish the ones he feels deserve punishment too.
Uhm, Nancy Martin just elected a State Senator from St. Lawrence County - whatever she's doing she's being effective, even if she's just supporting Patty's volunteers.
Dede will be Secretary of Labor and Darrel is be appointed to a board maybe Workers Comp or Parole.
Both should be fine tuning their resume's for the job market that they helped destroy in Northern New York, but because of "tradition" we recycle our useless politicians. All the while, helping pad their rediculous pensions.
Anon 229 u r a fool. Vaugh and Powers and others moved the city forward with nothing but grant $ that other cities would have received had they not applied for. The dems on tha council are holding on old issues from the past as a political cry for power. I see right thru them. Whine about the past and create nothing but hyperbole. The potential in that city is coming and they all collectively could get it done. But Bellardini is trying to create a web that does not belong in our city so I'm sure they will see thru it and wipe it out.
7:04 is right. Which means StatusCuomo will be a lame duck in 18 months. Then we will get StatusSchneiderman. That's a mouthful. Which brings me to Addie Jenne. Watch her lip lock with ol Sheldon. It'll be fun to see. I will miss Darrel. I did like him. He was one of our local guys who made good. BB was a surprise win as far as I'm concerned. I thought the NYC lawyer was going to win. I figured BB was damaged by the wind haters. I was wrong on that one.
I kinda thought McGrath might pull it off, too. There seemed to be a lot of animosity toward BB on the windpower thing. But McGrath tried to pawn himself off as more of a farm boy than he was and anyone who knows the family knew what a crock that was. Anyone who ever did business with the family had a sour taste over their poor service, too. That certainly didn't help any either.
The N.Y. City lawyer thing hurt McGrath, too. ANYTHING to do with NYC. is about as popular as a pig at a passover celebration in Lewis County. And with good reason, I might add.
Having been a farmer myself and having spent my whole life around farming, I have to honestly say I don't think the farmers of N.Y would be any worse off if the whole State Dep. of Ag were eliminated. And I'm not no sure farmers would be any worse off if the USDA were eliminated. Most of the really useful info farmers recieve is coming form private sourses through the interent or cable tv. like the RFD channel, anyway.
I know what, 8:58! Let's cut farm subsidies, too! See if you get by with Time-Warner and/or "private sources" sending you checks. And, as for food safety. Who needs it?
Look the Oburg council as a whole is woeful
The blame for continuous decline is equally shared .
There are very few farm subsities being paid anymore, regardless of what someone may have told you. That is one of the reasons that milk prices fluctuate so much these days. Quite frankly the state Ag dep. nor the USDA has anything much to do with commodity prices since the Reagan years. The point I was trying to make was that both of these departments are very expensive and the beifits to the farmers for the amount of taxpayer money expended offer very dubious benifits. Again the point I was trying to make is that there are far more efficeint ways for farmers to get the info they need to manage their businesses.
12:34 just got slapped by a real farmer. It gave me a tingle up my leg.
Funny don't we have a local industrial development agency for farming? Check out what was paid to corn farmers in the midwest.
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